Women's Equality Day 2022

Thanks to everyone who joined Suffrage100MA (now the Massachusetts Women's History Center) and the Mayor’s Office of Women’s Advancement on August 24, 2022 at the Boston Pubic Garden to Commemorate Women’s Equality Day 2022 Focus On: Reproductive Rights & Voting. 

See below for photos of the celebration! And view our Facebook Live stream of the event.

Special thanks to our speakers:

• Fredie Kay, Esq., Founder & President, Suffrage100MA
• Alexandra Valdez, Executive Director, Mayor’s Office of Women’s Advancement
• Dr. Nate Horwitz-Willis, Executive Director of the Advocacy Fund, Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts
• Sasha Goodfriend, Executive Director, MassNOW
• Patricia Comfort, Executive Director, League of Women Voters of Massachusetts
• Senator Cindy Creem, MA Senate Majority Leader
• Senator Becca Rausch, Norfolk, Bristol and Middlesex District
• Mary-dith Tuitt, MA Commission on the Status of Women and Vice-President, Suffrage100MA

About Women’s Equality Day: August 26, 1920 is the day that the 19th Amendment was added to the U.S. Constitution after a 72+ years-long battle by suffragists of many backgrounds to obtain the vote for women. The struggle for voting rights has continued, resulting in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and other legal achievements, and today we must continue to fight for equality and against voting restrictions.